ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,806, issued on April 22, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic instantiation and management of virtual caching appliances" was invented by Lakshmi Narayanan Bairavasundaram (San Jose, Calif.), Gokul Soundararajan (San Jose, Calif.), Vipul Mathur (Bangalore, India) and Kaladhar Voruganti (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is detected that a metric associated with a first workload has breached a first threshold. It is determined that the first workload and a second workload access the same storage resources, wherein the storage resources are associated with a storage server. It is determined that the ...